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Threats to Your Happiness

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 6:1-19 The ninth discourse consists of a series of four warnings that when taken in the overall context, amount to problems that can rob a person of marital happiness, since both the eighth and tenth discourses deal with adultery. … Continue reading →

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Warning Against Adultery

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 5 In this, the eighth wisdom discourse, the teacher warns his students against adultery. It continues to be written as a teacher to his male students, using an adulterous female as the protagonist, but the principles certainly would apply … Continue reading →

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A Father’s Warnings

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 4 With chapter 4, we begin a new section of the book, extending through chapter 6. This new section is introduced by the first use of the address “my sons” and takes on the tone of a warning rather … Continue reading →

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Wisdom, Creation and Duty

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 3:19-35 In this post, we’ll finish up chapter 3 as we see the fifth and sixth discourses. Wisdom in Creation Solomon shifts his thinking somewhat in this discourse, from an exhortation to pursue and attain wisdom, to what God’s … Continue reading →

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The Blessing of Wisdom

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 3:1-18 This fourth discourse can be said to be a continuation of the third. It has two sections, verses 1-12 contain exhortations from the teacher to his students to hold onto wisdom, and vv. 13-18 discuss the blessings of … Continue reading →

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The Benefits of Attaining Wisdom

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 2 The teacher makes his second appearance in chapter 2, after “lady” Wisdom has shown us what will become of the unwise in the preceding verses. Here, the teacher tells his students why it is such a good thing … Continue reading →

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“Lady” Wisdom Makes Her Case

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 1:20-33 In this section, godly wisdom is portrayed as a woman crying out in the city, the first such personification in the book. Obviously, this personification is a literary device rather than a literal person, and as such it … Continue reading →

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Proverbs and Gangs

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 1:10-19 This is the first of the 13 discourses, and as I mentioned in the last post, it is about gangs. Verses 10-14 set this out clearly enough; Solomon has a gang problem. Notice that the “son” is warned … Continue reading →

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The fear of the LORD

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Don Merritt

Proverbs 1:1-9 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 The first major section of Proverbs is chapters 1-9. These chapters are further broken down by theme into three subsections, the first of which … Continue reading →

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A Brief Introduction to Proverbs

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Don Merritt

Before I began our series through Song of Songs, I mentioned that I had decided to do both the Song of Songs and Proverbs, and so today we move onto Proverbs. I thought that the best way to proceed with … Continue reading →